Dainty has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:
Noun
· Adjective
Noun
1
something considered choice to eat
Adjective
1
delicately beautiful
"a dainty teacup"
"an exquisite cameo"
2
especially pleasing to the taste
"a dainty dish to set before a kind"
3
excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
"too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"
"so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
4
Excellent; valuable, fine.
Example Sentences
"a dainty teacup"
adjective
"an exquisite cameo"
adjective
"a dainty dish to set before a kind"
adjective
"too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"
adjective
"so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
adjective
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